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Alan Keslian

Biography:
Alan Keslian was a Gay Liberation Front activist in
London in the 1970s, among other things setting up West London GLF and
organising gay dances attended by hundreds in Fulham Town Hall. He has
experienced and benefited from the huge change in attitudes towards gay
men and lesbians in England and elsewhere during recent decades. During
his teenage years, in the UK any sex between men was a crime, whereas now
civil partnership offers a legal status on a par with marriage, and
discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation is increasingly outlawed.
This transformation has huge implications for gay relationships, and his
motive in writing is to explore the impact of this new freedom and portray
its effects. His first novel, Goodmans Hotel, was published in 2003. His
second, a more humorous book, Closer Than Breathing - A Light Gay Odyssey
- came out in 2009. He believes his readers' time is valuable, and tries
hard not to waste it. He lives with his partner in West London, and is a
member of GALHA, the UK-based Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association.


Goodmans Hotel
Alan Keslian

As pressure mounts in his job in the City of London, Mark decides on a
radical career change and sets up a gay hotel, the ‘Goodmans Hotel’ of the
title. He is irresistibly attracted to Tom, a local handyman and he takes
in an eighteen year old runaway, Darren, who is escaping from parental
bigotry.